Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:PBS Productions Center for Asian American Media CAAM
Roots In The Sand on the Web:Official Website
Roots In The Sand
DirectorJayasri Hart
WriterWilliam Hart
Watch on Kanopy57 minDocumentary
Plot
A multigenerational portrait of pioneering PunjabiMexican families who settled a century ago in Southern Californias Imperial Valley Through the use of found footage archival and family photographs personal and public documents Jayasri Majumdar Hart tells the touching and inspirational story of a community that grew out of a struggle for economic survival in the face of prejudice
